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BUG in 2.4.0: dd if=/dev/random of=out.txt bs=10000 count=100

DISCUSSION Bernd Eckenfels 1 participant 1 message Jan 13, 2001

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Quoted 2 lines · In article <[email protected]> you wrote:

If I do the dd line in the title under 2.4.0 I get an out.txt file of 591 bytes.

/dev/random will only give you as much bytes as are available. and even then you should not do it cause you drain the random pool. Use /dev/urandom instead.

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Bernd
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